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The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religio [PDF]

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Understanding religion requires explaining why supernatural beliefs, devotions, and rituals are both universal and variable across cultures, and why religion is so often associated with both large-scale cooperation and enduring group conflict.
Joseph Henrich, Scott Atran
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Awe and Boredom: Unravelling Dual Pathways Through Meaning in Life

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Possessing high meaning in life can prevent boredom. Recent evidence suggests that awe may increase meaning in life via vastness vis‐à‐vis the self (feeling connected to something bigger than the self) or decrease it through self‐diminishment (feeling insignificant).
Muireann K. O'Dea   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Social Divides in the Hong Kong 2019 Unrest: A Combination of Person‐ and Variable‐Centred Approaches

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research combined person‐ and variable‐centred approaches to examine whether (a) core values, (b) perceptions of the political system's legitimacy and (c) attitudes towards Hong Kong–Mainland China integration underlie the Yellow versus Blue politicized collective identities that emerged during the Hong Kong 2019 social unrest.
Ying‐yi Hong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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